If our Trade be taxed, why not our Lands, or Produce in short, everything we possess? They tax us without having legal representation.

What a man has honestly acquired is absolutely his own, which he may freely give, but cannot be taken from him without his consent.

The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.

The right to freedom being the gift of God, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave.

May every citizen ... have a proper sense of the Deity upon his mind and an impression of the declaration recorded in the Bible, 'Him that honoreth Me I will honor, but he that despiseth Me shall be lightly esteemed.'

Rebellion against a king may be pardoned, or lightly punished, but the man who dares to rebel against the laws of a republic ought to suffer death.

All might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they should.